[MPlayer-users] Re: MPlayer SVN doesn't take screenshots

[Rich Felker]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 11:41:57PM +0400, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
> On 17 Oct 2006 12:42, José Filipe wrote:
> > > Andrew Savchenko <Bircoph <at> list.ru> writes:
> > >
> > >
> > > $ convert shot0001.png shot0001.jpeg
> >
> > I know about that command, but is it possible to have the screenshot
> > command output automatically to jpeg?
> 
> No, jpeg provides lossy compression, imho therefore it is not used.

Converting to PNG is also lossy, since it involves colorspace
conversion and resampling. IMO jpeg with max quality is less lossy.
The problem is just that no one's implemented jpeg screenshot..

Rich